Succeeding radical Jeremy Corbyn, centrist and europhile Keir Starmer was elected head of the British Labor Party on Saturday. Its mission: to revive the main opposition party, divided in the middle of a health crisis.

New leader at the head of the British Labor Party. Keir Starmer, centrist and europhile, was elected Saturday at the head of the main opposition party, succeeding the radical Jeremy Corbyn. His challenge promises to be daunting. Keir Starmer inherits the heavy task of reviving the main opposition party, weakened and divided in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

"The honor and privilege of my life"

"Congratulations to Keir Starmer, the new head of Labor," tweeted the party, announcing the victory of this 57-year-old former lawyer and three-year-old responsible for Labor Labor Brexit.

"It is the honor and privilege of my life to be elected to head the Labor Party," Keir Starmer wrote on Twitter. "I will lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope, so that when the time comes, we can serve our country again."

It's the honor and privilege of my life to be elected as Leader of the Labor Party.

I will lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope, so that when the time comes, we can serve our country again - in government. pic.twitter.com/F4X088FTYY

- Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 4, 2020

Anti-Semitism, "a stain on the party"

Immediately elected, the new leader of the Labor Party offered his "apologies" for anti-Semitism within his party. In a televised speech broadcast just after his election by members of his party, he said: "In the name of Labor, I apologize", pledging to "wipe out the poison" of anti-Semitsime, a "stain on the party".